But first we need see what next can it the reporter writes about islamist terrorism and the most dangerous men in the world now shes published her memoirs. Last mckenna to expose the roots of the jihad the german journalist is interested in the other side of the conflict that has the world in its grip in her memoir she writes of watching found. The hobbit is a beginning and was moved by this is to look for these encounters because i think the only way we can try to understand these people is if we talk to them and put forward our arguments if you read the book you will see that i spoke with the i asked commander in the car. And i discussed a few atop of the discussion continued to the point when he put his hand in his right trouser pocket and i knew he was carrying a gun and he was and then i knew i had to tone down my critical questions. But i did try to argue with these people and try to understand how they became who they are. The daughter of moroccan immigrants grow up between two cultures when the western world was attacked on september the eleventh two thousand and one supposedly in the name of religion and it felt a responsibility as both a muslim and a journalist. To fall on his five im honest i met the widow of a firefighter who was killed in the september eleventh attacks and his widow said to us journalists i think the media and the politicians are also to blame for what happened on nine eleven. When we asked her why she said because nobody has explained why there are people who hate us so much and why they hate us. And. Why do young men become radicals mckennitt wants to comprehend to hear valid in one on one dialogues she speaks fluent arabic and she is honest two things that work to her advantage. Before interviews. Before i start an interview with jihadi leaders of jihad groups or foot soldiers or recruiters i always explain that im a journalist and everyone knows i work for the Washington Post i make no secret of that and we dont do undercover stories i tell them i will listen to your side of things i want to ask you critical questions because perhaps i heard things about you from other people but i will publish the answers you give me fairly in my article. Repeatedly hears of the conflict between sunnis and shiites she meets people with moral concepts and lifestyles that a different to ours but does that make them on acceptable. Dialogue seems possible and can its networks bring her to the of the socalled. Come of course they made certain demands he must leave your mobile phone at the hotel. But i mustnt carry any id or Electronic Devices no bags just a pencil and notebook. Thats the decision i had to make. I thought about it carefully and then i went to this meeting this meeting but i did leave an envelope with phone numbers and other instructions with my colleague who was waiting back at the hotel. Just in case i didnt return that evening and then after. She did return but the threats remained constant companions and not just from my ass in two thousand and eleven she was thrown in jail by the egyptian intelligence service. Of what it is. That i moved in with they threaten me with all kinds of things tied me up blindfolded me and led me into a room where a woman was screaming would be mine to follow you and i thought now maybe they are going to rape me sick of august with others and this was a point where as a journalist a woman and a human being to reach your limits i wish them to get you have to find a way to overcome them into order to overcome the fear. And then decide to continue to enjoy that sorts of. Turmoil the questionable game of world powers and an ideology that plays on fear mckenna takes a close look at the conflict situation. And this would be very problematic if we saw it from the perspective that this conflict is linked to islam and people hate the west because they are muslims the skin all that is exactly what these people want and they want us as a society to see it as a. Problem between religions a religious conflict a religious was more is happening. Or should not do than that favor five men used. A memoir titled i was told to come alone will soon be published in arabic. In the arab world to. Babylon berlin is germanys most ambitious and expensive t. V. Series ever. Started as a crime novel written by this man. Hes fascinated by germany in the roaring twentys a time. To be honest i became fascinated with his ear as soon as i was old enough to read how germanys first democracy blossomed but so quickly faded with the start of the. Man for the entire. Its a period of great tragedy. Its a tragedy that fascinates him so much so that he quit his job and began writing the resulting six crime novels about the one nine hundred twenty s. And thirtys and berlin. Now the first of those novels has been adapted into a sixteen episode t. V. Series and what a series it is. Babylon berlin with a budget of forty Million Euros this berlin is a metropolis thats home to poverty drug abuse and crime a volcano waiting to erupt fascinating and modern the series paints an authentic and gripping portrait of the german capital in that era. Cup and there was an incredible explosion of creativity art and culture it was so much going on especially in berlin. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants mainly from Eastern Europe arrived and were made to feel welcome in a city where millions of people filled the streets. With used. Is a crime writer who does Amazing Research and comes up with an incredibly vivid portrait of the era. Where the idea of is never good. Police and communists battle it out on the streets of berlin both the novel and the series are accurate down to the smallest detail. As precise as a history book and as exciting as a thriller straight out of hollywood. Doesnt deal with the t. V. Series and the novel are two very different while its high about the three screen writers and directors as much leeway as possible i said we need to tell the same story with the same spirit how we see this here and transport the same message but otherwise tell it. If you feel you have to. Most of void. The main character of the series is detective gaily on heart a heroin addict left deeply scarred by world war one hes a typical figure of the period he has to hide his suffering while working for the Homicide Department in a world with perverted morals. Entry in the novels as long ling no flushed. Down as i guessed on the sauce a russian found in a berlin canal. Great trial mustve shined on the d. V. D. I get called in to see when its not going fast charlie is the love of his life. The main characters have more problems in the series than in my books he was in the First World War and is traumatized and challenger comes from an even humbler background but is basically the type of woman who tries to use the new freedom of the republic to go on why. This was your big game. The last though. You were. Born in. The last real life of that era as well captured. It has to. Do. This if a person. Charlie is a prostitute by night a typist by day. That it was a time of change especially for women who demanded their fair share in the society shaped by the weimar republic. Know. It its a pulitzer when you know its a myth just at last i think this is why as a woman you can identify with this era on the women have a real mobilizing force its a period of change women can drive cars and so on but its still in the early stages does about allison and im feeling. This series has just celebrated its german premiere in berlin and had its International Premiere in los angeles its been sold to over sixty countries and further seasons are in the pipeline and for. Still writing three more daily on hot novels are still to come taking us into the darkest hours of nazi germany. So its more difficult than i imagined id like to finish at a time when we know where the journey is headed how dark its become in germany for me whats nine hundred thirty eight on the november pogroms. Of the t. V. Series and the novels provide excellent entertainment and simultaneously ask how fragile is democracy and how can we protect it. Now more cultural highlights picked up on our radar. Heart grows more abstract the more terrifying the world becomes thats a quote bipolar clay from one nine hundred fifteen during the horrors of world war one now. An exhibition in Basel Switzerland shows just how much the abstract influenced his work many works are on show for the first time on loan from private collectors and carefully restored for the exhibition. Clay dismantled reality to make one of his own. In his works letters a random making them impossible to read what remains is the form all you see is lines but for me it is the entire world clay allegedly said shortly before his death. That stripped down style made poet clay a trailblazer of modality. Lively take on addressing pain. Young violinist then has collected funeral songs from the balkans heart rending yodeling from the alps and the indian ragas sounds of mourning from around the world the final farewell sounds different in every culture. Much as though had to travel lessons and write down notation because many of the songs are passed on from one generation to the next solely through playing them now though has won a family mendelssohn advancement award for his work. Its a musical homage to in comprehensible loss. A Museum Without windows might streams in just the same the facade changes according to the light and color of the sky the house paid out some top twenty years ago now to mark the jubilee the museum a staging at some toy retrospect. How did this was original become one of the worlds top architects. What inspires and motivates him in a kind of course of the senses. How can you deliberately experience a space by filling it with melodies from a music box for example. Or by creating an oasis of purposelessness found objects fragile branches grounded but weightless just like some toys architecture its at home in this space rooted in uncompromising. The opening of the cape town was a major r. To vent in africa the Museum Showcases contemporary african art reflecting whats happening right now. This museum fills a void its the first museum for contemporary african art in africa its a milestone for african artists but it is not without its critics. And his team are on europeans bringing to africa. A return to colonial times about the artists and. Expression of. Communicating and speaking in this. Anybody could have. World and we got to get over. This used to be a storage site for grain. Provides ample space for. Hundred exhibition rooms sculptures photos paintings and installations. Finally on display in africa. Its very important that we have a museum like this of scale so that we have a map of voices that could be heard that we could have two multiple exhibitions running at the same time from many Different Countries across africa with the dyes for them so that we can demonstrate the richness this richness has not gone unnoticed by the International Art same. As commanding top prizes at International Auctions has dragon like installation now hovers in the atrium of the sites museum of contemporary art africa. But there is also room for new discoveries divider is an installation by longest into rope and beer bottles everyday objects that can also do harm. Longest walk in woodstock cape towns Arts District the what if the World Gallery here is displaying how work last memorial won a critical look at the monuments of the colonial rulers. And this was art is decidedly political fighting against established structures from the dog days of colonialism and apartheid. I want to shift things i want to take away the comfortability. That that exists currently right now in the city. But comfortability in terms of black White Privilege and things like that thats what i will just destroy. What is currently exhibiting in london and is tangible shes noticed that the International World has set its sights on africa. Thats great but like also just like it just the whole notion of african like kind of also like bothers me because you know why did you have this issue. Place as can we not just be seen as artists they dont go to somewhere like germany others so theres quite a lot of work that needs to be done. For people to actually take it seriously and start engaging in looking at us different instead of like flitter sizing african artists. A few kilometers away we visit atlanta cari studio traditional materials and techniques like beads and braiding dominate his latest work. Hes currently exhibiting in amsterdam and last year he showed in basel and miami. Explains why there is such high demand when you start coming across something that you havent seen before and you can quite explain it but its invoking an emotion that was you to question is. To open your eyes and change your perspective this is what you want. Is it enough to just be different as were going out there and pretending that we can make stuff just because it looks different but this that of itself is quite high its almost like the olympics of. The country and show what you can really do and come back with a lot of gold by the way. Back to cape towns waterfront Guild Gallery is close to the tight. Seven mcgowan and her husband julian has been displaying african art and design here since two thousand and eight. They say interest is growing. Globally were looking to connect with something thats more human and more real. And with narrative and meaning and i think thats what we offer as a country and our creative platform as we we are very very real and very visceral and very connected to Human Emotion and i think thats what people are looking for whatever art lovers and collectors are looking for the marker is poised to direct their interest to. Made in africa. Now to jazz from south africa musicians such as miriam a cable and im deliberately him have had global careers now a new generation is letting its voices be heard. And. A marketing me is one of south africas leading jazz musicians he sings for a nation still torn apart some twenty five years after the end of apartheid. This song is a part a call tool our ancestors to china healing touch and healing to this generation of south africans. To fight for equal opportunities part of a marketing his biography born in one thousand eight hundred two he experienced south africas transition to a post apartheid rainbow nation. The pinnace does a sangoma on Natural Healing he wants to use his music to help his home and overcome the trauma of racial segregation. The my. Sort of lessons in jazz where in church there were in ceremonies you know my first lessons of how money they were in chess news e. Q. Know everything you know and also what its said to me was this music was introduced in a spiritual mode so this is something i love to hold to myself. And due to marketing me belongs to a new generation of musicians in his home and. Jazz has always been political in south africa and was often viewed with skepticism by those in power today the white minority is no longer in charge but problems remain the countrys ridden with widespread corruption and in danger of collapse but can music really help. The at the moment. Nothing has changed much for south africas poor oppression exploitation and a lack of opportunities remain the underdogs often fight each other on the streets instead of resisting their oppressors. There have been student demonstrations with the slogan fees must fall for years the protesters are calling for Free Education and a total de colonialization it is now the largest and most violent protest Movement Since the end of apartheid. Drama to me mother rosie is not seeking a spiritual solution but a decidedly political one in his music theory first to the writings of fronts far known a radical critical colonialism in the one nine hundred sixty s. There is no way not to be political and there is no way not to be. Within the experience of the condition of the world. Because we are. To be part and parcel of this sort of embodiment of the idea of what humanity should be. Jazz as a protest against racism segregation and the lack of opportunities for the black population in south africa. To me mother rosie and many others the colonialization has not yet happened in south africa. You know i give to her and i think she just means means exactly that come to me as you are dont come to me as i think you are. And as opposed to the world with a u. S. Centric sort of like notion of how the functionality is then you have to be violent in that kind of situation. Violence that to me mother rose he expresses in his music. And do to market uses music as a part of traditional african healing rituals its a lengthy process south africa continues to battle the burden of a brutal past and the challenges of today. There is an illusion that it bled men is free but were still very much farther away from the from the freedom that was sick for and theres a need for it and thats whats want to project in our music today. A new generation of jazz musicians its rediscovering african traditions making itself heard beyond the borders of south africa. Thats all from march twenty one for now next week well focus on Martin Luther the monk revolutionary and reformer five hundred years ago he nailed his theses to the door of the church and then the city is celebrating in style until then good bye and. Thank. You for being stars deliver rousing performances. You see with the rhythm in her is just as in her and as sharp tongued its not in the spotlight by. Zen jimmy raney and singer yes mean to tell. Captivates have fans now that youre in the in concert in fifteen minutes on d. Doubling. Every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word i looked in the. Rico is in germany to learn german why not learn to tell a simple online on your mobile and free to sapps for d w z learning course nikos basic german made easy. Its all about the moments that lie before. Its all about the stories inside. Its all about George Chance to discover the world from different perspectives. Join us and inspired by distinctive instagram others at g. W. Stories new topics each week on instagram. Progress that in the way they start to divide the country did it feel to where they start to divide the language blood will flow for the. Ninety nine weeks the soviet union is breaking apart the night of that night but everyone knew the decision would seal everyones face to get us there and get my side of. The members of the Russian Federation would have to find their own way politically and economically with love so it was an incredibly difficult task for you not me as a bench democrat vista mockers he was a life of a guy the elections were a fraud say privatization was robbery shuras instead of cultivating its culture its roots in language it brought forth a rebuttal said nationalism thank the soviet unions heritage where does russia stand today and moscows empire. Why are our series starting november fifth on d w. This is d w news live from berlin calling a snap election appears to have paid off big for shinzo abbay exit polls are projecting a landslide victory for the japanese prime theres willing conservatives this fall is a Short Campaign that focused on the economy and